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Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction : A Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence /

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This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index no...

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Main Author: Close, Glen S. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Latin American Culture.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Ethnology > Latin America.
Literature > Philosophy.
Sociology, Urban.
America > Literatures.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index not only of local perceptions of contemporary urban experience and of a contemporary urban "ecology of fear," but also as a transnational index of the globalization of literary forms and markets. It centers on the inscription of urban space in novels set in the metropolitan centers of the Hispanic World: Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 230 pages)
ISBN:9780230614635
DOI:10.1057/9780230614635